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Mark Hanna - seriously injured when the Buchon he was flying crashed in Spain on 25th September 1999 - Died the following evening. One of the UKs most experienced warbird pilots, ex-RAF fast jet pilot Hanna had over 4000 hours flight time with 2300 of that flying historic aircraft. Jabo

Delta's right about Tom's H/W, always a useful read. The only thing I'd add to the points already made Col, is that the boards you're looking at are not SLI/Crossfire compatible as they only have one x16 slot. A lot of the newer games get a significant boost from using a couple (or even three) gfx cards. Obviously, for the time being you could use a single card, but to build in some additional future-proofing, I'd look for a board which can support multiple graphics cards (which when they're cheaper later may be an easier upgrade pill to swallow). Jabo

Following on from my Mundayz post a while back. I present... Elephants are cool. Jabo

Wow. +1 Best post of 2009

That's a real shame m8, but on the flip side you are going to be making the world a safer place so you should be having a warm, fuzzy feeling about that. There's always another time m8. There'll be pictures I'm sure. Jabo

Brilliant. Just like every Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday/Sunday evening for me. LOL. Awesome. Cheers Jabo

LOL. It was a lot more than I wanted to spend, but having had a small bonus this month for being ace, I decided to treat myself. It's paid for the X52 and the TIR, so I'm happy. Jabo

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No need to chase him. It arrived here this morning. I was going to make a post about my set up woes

Educashun should come first m8. We're here often enough...As for the summer....

Yep, you got it. The hotel is on the left just before you get to the railway line. ~S~ Jabo

4850 retails at around the £130 mark, but bear in mind that's with 1GB of gfx memory not 512MB. 3850 which is much less widely available now is around £50 - £100 for a 512MB card. Just for comparisons sake a 1GB 4890 can be had for less than £200 (£199.27

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~S~ GK - great post. I may just mark this NSFW (not safe for wife

Close, but no cigar as the saying goes - You've come up a couple of miles short. You want this one; The Red Lion Hotel, Station Rd East, Whittlesford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB22 4NL http://www.trlh.co.uk/ Good attempt though there's about six pubs in the area with the same name! ~S~ Jabo

Hmm, possibly, can't see a version number for the manager, but my audio driver version is 6.0.1.5618 ~S~ Jabo

I'll bring my GPS. i hope it'll help. I hope we can exchange mobile numbers just in case. No worries m8, we usually have a round of exchanging phone numbers a few days before. Check your GPS - does it know the location of the Imperial War Museum @ Duxford? Yea im always checking the boards buddy, the one thing i can do latley without too much hassle, plan for the friday sounds good. Good, but I've got your phone number just in case.

To paraphrase Krusty, "I heartily endorse the above post or comment". Thanks Mick - as always a fount of useful information. ~S~ Jabo

Top right hand corner of the Realtek HD Audio Manager window - "Device Advanced Settings" - click this and then select the top options for Playback and Recording devices. Do that, then try plugging your headset in at the front, and see if it recognises anything being plugged in. ~S~ Jabo

A story from the Daily Telegraph to illustrate Rico's point; "Auschwitz is a beer, schoolchildren tell researchers Some schoolchildren believe Auschwitz is the name of a type of beer or a religious festival, rather than the notorious concentration camp, research has shown. Around 1.3 million people perished in the Nazi death camp during the Second World War, but a survey of more than 1,000 secondary school pupils aged 11-16 revealed that a quarter still did not know its purpose. Of those, about 10 per cent were not sure what it was, 8 per cent thought it was a country bordering Germany, 2 per cent thought it was a beer, the same proportion said it was a religious festival and a further 1 per cent said it was a type of bread. Miramax and the London Jewish Cultural Centre, which commissioned the survey to mark the DVD release of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, said that, as there are around 4.5 million 11 to 16-year-olds in the UK, this is the equivalent of 90,000 youngsters wrongly identifying Auschwitz as a drink and 45,000 mistaking it for bread. The poll found that six in 10 youngsters did not know what the Final Solution was, with a fifth claiming it was the name of peace talks held to end the war. And it revealed that, despite the Holocaust being specified on the secondary National Curriculum as a subject that pupils must be taught, only just over a third (37 per cent) knew that the Holocaust claimed the lives of six million Jews, with many drastically under-estimating the death toll. While 97 per cent of those questioned could identify Adolf Hitler from a photograph, those who could not mistook famous figures such as Winston Churchill, Salvador Dali and Albert Einstein for the dictator." Not all of these are 'children', some are next year's sixth formers and under-graduates in two years time - Education has a lot to answer for. ~S~ Jabo

Order for TIR 5 is placed. The guy over at RC Simulations told me this morning that NaturalPoint hadn't yet shipped the unit to retailers. Prolly why everyone's showing no stock. He's expecting them in at the end of this week. I'll be chasing him then. ~S~ Jabo

Yeah, he got a -1 from me.